Includes bibliographical references (p. [526]-555) and index.

Ch.1 The discoveries of stone age sites and tools, C. 1860-C. 1950 -- Ch.2 Homind fossils, earliest stone tools, and India in the current scheme of human evolution -- Ch. 3 Palaeolithic sites, sequences ad materials -- Ch. 4 Palaeolithic India -- Ch.5 The Mesolithic evidence -- Ch.6 Problem of the beginning of food production in India and the evidence from Mehrgarh -- Ch.7 Beyond Mehrgarh -- Ch. 8 origin and chronology of the Harappan or Indus civilization -- Ch. 9 Distribution and morphological features of mature Harappan settlements -- Ch. 10 Aspects of the Indus civilization -- Ch. 11 Late Harappan phase and the legacy of the Indus civilization -- Ch.12 Beginning of rice agriculture in the central Ganga Plain and other issues -- Ch.13 Neolithic-Chalcolithic cultures outside the Harappan orbit -- Ch.14 The beginning of iron -- Ch.15 The foundations of early historic India -- Ch.16 Beginning of early historic India -- Ch.17 Early historic cities -- Ch.18 The material basis of life -- Ch.19 Art and architecture -- Ch.20 Inscription, coins, religions -- Ch.21 Multiple and shifting of power, AD C.7th-C.13th centuries -- Ch.22 Settlements, irrigation, technology, trade -- Ch.23 Inscriptions and coins -- Ch.24 Temples, monasteries, sculpture, and painting -- Ch.25 Archaeology of India